How Do You Become A Professor?

bednobs | 20:44 Wed 15th Oct 2014 | ChatterBank

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and is it higher than "Doctor" and is it attached to a job, or once you are a professor you always stay one? is there a qualification attached to it?

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B00

You need to be a doctorate holder....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor

Psybbo

You get a 'Chair', sorry bednobs, in the academic world

BlackadderV

A doctorate isn't essential for a professorship, though it's usual. My professor did not have one. Once a professor retires he takes the title of Emeritus Professor.

tonyav

The title professor is a grade of appointment in a university.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071227050431AAqTr4G

Buenchico

The title 'Professor' is awarded to the head of a faculty within a university. i.e. to the person who 'holds the Chair' of the faculty (or of a specialist area of study within a faculty).

When they retire it's common practice for them to be granted the title of Emeritus Professor.

bednobs

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so, what about honorary professors, can they use the title, and what about when they retire?

Buenchico

People granted honorary titles by universities are entitled (literally!) to use those titles but it would probably be considered 'poor form' for them to do so. For example, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey and Kylie Minogue all hold honorary doctorates but they don't normally put 'Dr' in front of their names.

On honorary professorship must automatically be for life because (since the recipient doesn't work for the university anyway) there can be no question of 'retirement'.

Psybbo

And then there is Emeritus Professor

jno

Psybbo, I remember Rupert Murdoch kicked an editor upstairs and called him Emeritus Editor.

When Murdoch was asked what that meant, he said it was Latin - "E means he's out and meritus means he deserves it".